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Decluttering Before a Move: How to Spark Joy and Ease...

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2025/06/02

Welcome to today’s episode. “Moving sucks,” as Jay Peters reminds us, but he’s found that decluttering can make the process a lot smoother. When he and his wife downsized from a one-bedroom to a studio in Seattle, they turned to Marie Kondo’s advice—keeping only what “spark[s] joy.” Starting small, they tackled clothes first, saving precious gadgets and games for later. Peters admits that once you decide what to remove, finding a place to donate or sell it can be its own challenge. He also

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The Search Revolution Unveiled: How Google...

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2025/06/02

Welcome back to Book Overflow. Today we’re diving into the first third of Steven Levy’s In The Plex, where Carter and Nathan explore how two Stanford PhD students, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, sparked the search revolution. As Levy writes, their breakthrough was a new way to “organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.” They called their algorithm PageRank, and it didn’t just count keywords—you could say it “understood” the importance of each link. Early

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AI in Academia The New Frontier of Collaborative...

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2025/06/02

Welcome back to “Beyond the Essay,” where we explore how technology reshapes learning. Today, we dive into a surprising shift in college humanities classes: students openly using AI to write their papers—and arguing it’s not cheating. One student told me, “If you can hire an editor or look up sources online, why not use ChatGPT?” They see AI as just another tool for brainstorming or refining language, much like spellcheck or Google. At first, I bristled at the idea. Isn’t writing supposed

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Unlocking the Secrets of Sleep: Expert Tips for a...

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2025/06/02

Welcome to Today’s Insight. I’m your host, and today we’re diving into the science of sleep with Professor Russell Foster from Oxford. Foster reminds us, “Circadian rhythms are our internal 24-hour clocks,” governing everything from hormones to body temperature. He explains that light is the single biggest cue for our brain—so start your day with bright morning light and dim the lights in the evening. Keep your bedroom cool—around 18 degrees Celsius—to signal to your brain that it’s time to

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Political Palate A Taste of Butterworths and the...

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2025/06/02

Welcome to D.C. Dish, I’m your host, Sarah Collins. Today we’re talking about Butterworth’s, the buzzy Trump-friendly French bistro on Capitol Hill that Robert Draper calls “the deplorable as arriviste.” Opened just weeks before the 2024 election, Butterworth’s quickly became a MAGA magnet, thanks in large part to host Raheem Kassam, who greets newcomers and quips, “I’m a big believer in conceal-carry,” before sliding a tin of caviar onto the table. Even Steve Bannon holds court there, and

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When Hardware Meets Power Tools: The IT Nightmare of...

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2025/06/02

Hello and welcome to Tech Minute. Today, we’ve got a story that sounds like the punchline of a bad joke: an IT administrator walked into his company’s datacenter armed not with backup drives or replacement parts, but with a cordless drill. According to court documents, the admin proceeded to physically bore through hard disks in multiple servers, literally drilling holes straight through the platters. The result was a cascading failure that took down an entire datacenter, disrupting

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Conspiracy Theories in the Spotlight: The Rise of...

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2025/06/02

Hello and welcome to today’s news brief. Over the weekend, former President Donald Trump shared an extraordinary conspiracy theory on his Truth Social platform. He reposted a fringe claim that President Joe Biden was “executed in 2020” and secretly replaced by a “robotic clone.” The White House has not responded to requests for comment, but this latest post reflects a pattern: Trump has repeatedly pushed baseless theories about Biden’s age, health and competence. In recent weeks, he even

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Building an iPhone in America The Trillion Dollar...

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2025/06/01

Welcome to The Tech Minute. Today, we’re diving into Scott Galloway and Patrick McGee’s breakdown of what it would take to build an iPhone in the U.S. First, the big kicker: labor. “You’d be looking at five times higher wage costs,” Galloway warns, meaning an extra $600 per device once you factor in automation and overhead. Then there’s the ecosystem—Foxconn’s Shenzhen campus isn’t just a factory, it’s a network of suppliers, engineers, and logistics all optimized for scale. “You can’t flip

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Navigating the Crossroads of Education and Security:...

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2025/06/01

Welcome to our daily news brief. I’m your host. Today, the Trump administration claims some Chinese students “exploit” U.S. universities, announcing plans to revoke a record number of their visas. With roughly 277,000 Chinese students enrolled on American campuses, critics warn this hard-line “America First” policy risks undermining the nation’s standing as a top global academic destination. Officials defend the move as essential to national security, pointing to concerns over espionage and

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Navigating Uncertainty: Indian Students Confronting...

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2025/06/01

Today on our podcast: Indian students dreaming of American campuses now find themselves in limbo. After a decision to pause student‐visa interviews and expand social media screening, many say their plans have been thrown off course. Some are quietly deleting posts and unfollowing friends, others swapping tips in encrypted group chats, and a few even praying at so-called “visa temples.” “I have carefully built my profile to be able to get into the top policy programs in the U.S.,” says

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Why Privacy Advocates Love Apple TV The Shield...

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2025/06/01

Hello and welcome to Privacy Pulse—your one minute dive into digital privacy. Today we’re breaking down why privacy advocates swear by Apple TV boxes. Whenever smart TVs ratchet up tracking, the advice is always: "Just disconnect your TV from the Internet and use an Apple TV box." From the moment you set it up, Siri, location tracking, and analytics are off by default, and apps running tvOS 14.5 or later must explicitly ask permission before they can track you. As Apple puts it, "If you

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Chill Out and Power Up with the Nice Rocc Your...

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2025/06/01

On today’s episode, we’re diving into the Nice Rocc, a $975 handheld palm-cooling device designed to accelerate muscle recovery and boost performance. Using electronic cooling based on the Peltier effect, the Rocc reaches its target temperature of “50 to 60 degrees Fahrenheit” in about two minutes. By holding it for at least two minutes, you send cooled blood through your body to drop core temperature fast. Weighing 5.3 pounds, the Rocc is iceless—no ice packs or setup required—just charge

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Navigating Workplace Silence and Quoting Jobs Like a Pro

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2025/06/01

Welcome to the Tested Podcast. I’m your host, and today we’re diving into a common workplace snag: Why Being Quiet at Work Could Be a Problem. In a recent live stream, Adam Savage pointed out that “silence at work often reads as disengagement,” leaving teammates wondering if you’re uninterested or unapproachable. His advice? Schedule brief one-on-one check-ins or send concise status emails to let people know you’re on top of your tasks. Next, Adam tackled the tricky art of quoting jobs when

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Bill Clinton Reflects on Democracy and Leadership in...

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2025/06/01

Hello and welcome. In a wide-ranging CBS Sunday Morning interview, former President Bill Clinton spoke with Tracy Smith about what he sees as President Trump’s most alarming moves—and what’s holding him back. “When the commander-in-chief starts to ignore court orders,” Clinton warned, “you’re flirting with a constitutional crisis.” Yet Clinton argues that America’s system of checks and balances—and a vigilant press—have so far kept the president from consolidating power. On the Democratic

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Musk's Mission: The Bold Gamble of Government...

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2025/06/01

Hello and welcome to today’s episode. Since joining the Trump administration with what was described as a “mandate to shrink government,” Elon Musk—often called the “world’s richest man” and a key funder of Donald Trump’s run for office—took the reins of the newly created Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE. Under his leadership, teams moved swiftly to fire workers, close regional offices, and cut off funding for innumerable programs in the name of streamlining. But even as Musk

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From Zero to Hero: Mastering TrueNAS Scale in One Hour

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2025/06/01

Welcome back to Hardware Haven—“It’s been a while,” but today we’re diving into a complete TrueNAS Scale setup from zero to hero. First, head to piavpn.com/hardwarehaven for 83 percent off Private Internet Access with four months free. Ready? Grab your drives and meet the hardware requirements: NVMe SSDs, a 10 Gb SFP+ card, and plenty of RAM. Flash TrueNAS Scale, complete the initial tweaks, then nail down your network settings, users, and groups. Next, create your storage pool, add a

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From Coders to Warehouse Workers: The Dark Side of AI...

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2025/05/31

Welcome to TechBrief, I’m your host. Today, we’re talking about how AI is turning Amazon’s software engineers into the equivalent of warehouse workers. As Cory Doctorow explains in Pluralistic, many coders have become “reverse-centaurs,” forced to review AI-generated code under brutal time pressure. Instead of solving complex problems, they race to catch errors that are nearly impossible to spot. Doctorow calls this role the “human in the loop” and warns that these developers become what

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Mastering Multi-Cursor Magic in Visual Studio Code

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2025/05/31

Hello and welcome to the Code Minute podcast. Today we’re diving into Visual Studio Code’s multi-cursor editing feature, which lets you place more than one cursor in your file to edit several lines at once. As the article says, you can “type once and apply that change across multiple places,” making repetitive tasks like renaming variables or updating class names a breeze. You can place cursors manually by holding Alt on Windows or Linux, Option on Mac, and clicking where you need them. Or

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Transform Your Code in Seconds with Prettier in...

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2025/05/31

Welcome to Code Corner, where we save you time and sanity with practical developer tips. Today we’re tackling the pain of manual code formatting in Visual Studio Code. As the article reminds us, “consistent formatting is essential for readability and maintainability,” but doing it by hand “slows you down and sometimes leads to inconsistent results.” Here’s the quick fix: install the Prettier – Code Formatter extension, then enable “Format On Save” in your settings. Now every time you hit

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Mastering Indentation in VS Code for Cleaner Code and...

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2025/05/31

Hello and welcome to the It’s FOSS podcast. Today we’re tackling a simple but powerful feature in VS Code: indentation. As the article reminds us, “Indentation is how code is visually spaced. It helps define structure, scope, and readability.” Whether you prefer two spaces, four spaces, or tabs, VS Code lets you customize it per file, per project, or per language. On a per-file basis, just click the “Spaces: 4” or “Tab Size: 4” label in the status bar, choose your settings, then hit Format

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